Drawing the Portrait: Step-by-Step Lessons for Mastering Classic Techniques for Beginners
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The ultimate guide to learning how to easily draw stunning, realistic faces. The human head is one of the most challenging yet rewarding subjects to draw. In this book, popular YouTube drawing instructor Braden Messer details how to master classic portrait drawing techniques. Using simple, step-by-step projects he provide readers a solid foundation to depict any face. Messer details easy techniques for constructing eyes, noses, lips, ears, and hair, as well as placing these features on a head with accurate proportions. With this book, readers will build their understanding of the anatomy of the human head along with their muscle memory and confidence to be able to draw beautiful portraits with ease. In this book you will learn: *To understand the Loomis method of portraiture, which utilizes sections to depict the human head *Mastering the Asaro method, which helps artists understand the planes of the face *How to construct eyes, noses, lips, ears, and hair with accurate proportions *Drawing portraits with pencils and pens as well as digitally with Procreate *And more! Review: Good. - This was easy to follow by looking at the pictures of the steps. Review: Loving this book! - I’m so glad I pre ordered this book. It came yesterday and already I am learning so much. I love the links to the instructional videos. I am so glad Mr. Messer decided to write this book. He gives you so much. If you are a novice, self taught artist like myself, this book is essential to your library. My confidence is growing already!
| Best Sellers Rank | #282,934 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #104 in Human Figure Art (Books) #245 in Figure Drawing Guides #248 in Pencil Drawing |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 28 Reviews |
C**R
Good.
This was easy to follow by looking at the pictures of the steps.
D**N
Loving this book!
I’m so glad I pre ordered this book. It came yesterday and already I am learning so much. I love the links to the instructional videos. I am so glad Mr. Messer decided to write this book. He gives you so much. If you are a novice, self taught artist like myself, this book is essential to your library. My confidence is growing already!
T**I
for the frustrated same-face syndrome drawing artist
I’ve chugged through every Loomis head video on YouTube, and skimmed the Asaro head videos. And as I made progress with the Loomis method, all of my faces kept turning out the same. And then, drawing the features was a pain. My eyes always looked stamped on or cartoony. And no matter how many portraits I drew, I couldn’t get my features to connect. A day before I discovered Braden’s YouTube channel, I prayed to God and asked Him to please help me figure it out. Being able to draw a decent portrait was limited to following along the tutorial. Left to my own devices, same face syndrome struck again. Well, He showed me this visual of the eyes connecting to the rest of the face. Like an “M” and I could see it but wasn’t sure what it was. I searched all day on YouTube and almost had a mental breakdown. My husband will tell you. I could cry at the drop of a hat. But, I found Messer’s creation, and lo and behold, he blended both the Loomis and Asaro, and that’s the eureka moment that made the difference. I studied every single video he had on it, drew along until I got the hang of it, and finally took a stab at a reference by myself. Oh my God!!! What a breakthrough that was! And while the YouTube channel sufficed, I wanted to support Braden for being the vessel. And the book was not a disappointment. I love that I can always reference it now without going through a bunch of videos. This is not a read-it-once book. It truly is a reference that you’ll come back to however many times you need. Thank you Braden. And thank you Jesus!!!
N**R
Decent portrait tutorial
Good for beginners and overall all-round knowledge. I always focused on drawing eyes and never got the neck, ear, hair etc to look realistic..I would say this helped in that aspect especially with shading
A**R
Great Book
It is very nice, very informative. It helps by guiding you through the steps to create beautiful portraits.
C**7
Disappointing - OK for beginners
OK book for beginners. If you know how to draw a human face, you won’t learn anything. I’m going to give my copy to my public library.
G**A
Best Drawing Instructional Book
This is my favorite drawing book on portraits so far. So easy to follow the steps by steps. I hope the author comes out with more drawing books on different subjects.
C**R
Good book
Good book for learning to draw.
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